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marginal fringes shorter. The third funicle joint in the Syntomospliyrella is shortest, somewhat 

 wider than long, 2 longest, somewhat longer than wide, nearly as long as the pedicel, 1 a little 

 shorter than 2. In the Selitricliodelia, the median groove of scutum is not deep but delicate. 

 In the Syntomospliyrella there can be no doubt in regard to at least two club joints while no 

 trace of the third can be seen ; the club is divided a little proximad of middle. 



To further complicate matters I have a specimen of a species agreeing with the 

 Selitricliodelia except that there are three ring-joints and two distinct club joints. This 

 specimen differs from the Syntomospliyrella in having the antenna) stouter, the mandibles 

 distinctly larger and the wings broader, besides the groove on the scutum. This specimen was 

 captured at Tweed Heads, Tweed River, N. S. Wales, May 14, 1914, in forest (A. P. Dodd). 

 The second ring-joint is very short. The cephalic tibiaa are all white in all three (not the 

 femora as originally stated for the Syntomospliyrella) . 



After some consideration, I concluded the New South "Wales specimen to be the 

 Selitricliodelia' 1 - with which it agrees in every particular that could be made out. It has a 

 short postmarginal vein. Types re-examined. 



2. SYNTOMOSPHYRELLA QUADRIMACULATA Girault. 



Equals Selitricliodelia Iri maculosa Girault. Types compared. 



3. SYNTOMOSPHYRELLA ATRIVENTRIS new species. 



Female: — Length, 1 mm. Short, robust. 



Black, the wings hyaline; the pronotum, scutum (except for a large subquadrate 

 blackish area at base extending nearly to lateral margins) and the head orange yellow; also 

 abdomen slightly around base. Sentelhim, legs except hind coxa (other coxae blackish at base) 

 and hind femur (washed with blackish), antenna? and lateral margins of scutum (more broadly 

 cephalad), contrasting' lemon yellow. Scutum long; propodeum very short. Mandibles 

 tridentate. Pedicel distinctly longer than any of the funicle joints, the latter subquadrate, 

 subequal. Club without a distinct terminal seta. Antennae washed with dusky. Stigmal vein 

 long, the postmarginal distinctly but only slightly developed. Pore wings broad. 



From one female captured by sweeping jungle, along a forest streamlet, June 14, 1913 

 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns). Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 2634, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head on 

 a slide. 



4. SYNTOMOSPHYRELLA ACOMATA new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 



Female: — Length. 1.10 mm. 



Golden yellow, the wings hyaline, the appendages eoncolorous; a spot on each side of 

 face of pronotum, the cephalo-lateral angle of each axilla, meson and caudal margin at ineson 

 of propodeum (jet) and two sr.ots on abdomen somewhat distad of middle, one on each side 

 of meson, blackish. Middle of cephalic margin on each side of propodeum, dusky. Funicle 

 joints subequal, each somewhat wider than long and about half the length of the pedicel. 

 Mandibles tridentate. Propodeum short at the meson. Abdomen short and stout. 



Described from two females reared from miscellaneous galls on Eucalyptus, October 6, 

 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. II y 2635, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one of the above specimens on a tag, 

 the head on a slide. 



1= Selitrichodelia fusdpennis must therefore be referred to Tetr.islichella wlwre the name is preoccupied. The 

 new name nubilipennis is herewith sjiven to it. 



